Performance Database

Choreographer: Jack Carter
Composer: Ernest Bloch
Set designer: Norman McDowell
Costume designer: Norman McDowell
Rambert premiere: 15 Jan 1953, Ballet Rambert, Connaught Theatre, Worthing
World premiere: 9 Nov 1952, Ballet Workshop, Mercury Theatre, London, United Kingdom
Work note: A Fantasy Ballet based on 'Du cote de chez Swann' by Marcel Proust. At the Ballet Workshop premiere, the ballet's title was 'Ouverture'. The work was taken into Ballet Rambert's repertoire 'by arrangement with Ballet Workshop'.
Music details: Live music: violin and piano
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0156

Performances

Date Programme Venue
15 Jan 1953
Evening 		Les Sylphides | Past Recalled* | Plaisance | The Gala Performance Connaught Theatre, Worthing
28 Jun 1955
Evening 		Les Sylphides | Persephone* | Past Recalled | The Gala Performance Sadler's Wells Theatre, London